One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Travel makes a wise man better and a fool worse.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
You never know what motivates you.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.